[Please note that the views presented by individual contributors are not
necessarily representative of the views of ATCA, which is neutral. ATCA conducts
collective Socratic dialogue on global opportunities and threats.]

Elizabeth Marshall is a Fellow of The Energy Institute in London and Member
of the Ad Hoc Expert Group on Energy convened by United Nations Economic Commission
for Europe (UNECE), based in Geneva, Switzerland, since 1992. Elizabeth is
a former director of the British Institute of Energy Economics and a member
of The Windsor Energy Group of which The Lord Howell, a long standing ATCA
contributor, is Chairman. She is based in the extreme North of the United
Kingdom in Wick, Caithness, and is a member of the Institute of Directors
in London and The Reform Club. She writes:

It is not just a case of the extraordinary rainfall events and extreme weather
affecting the UK this summer. Observations of the alarming rise in sea levels
and storm surge events far outstrip the projections of the recent IPCC report,
whilst we are still haplessly short of data on precisely what is happening
to the Gulf Stream.

We need an international crisis meeting to be called for this autumn, involving
not only governments and UN agencies, but especially the international banking
and investment community. No continent is being left untouched. No community
is immune. The resources and planning effort required for sustainability need
co-operation to be on a co-ordinated and global scale, for serious medium
to long term planning as communities everywhere are threatened -- whether
they are the millions living with the threat of future drought in the Yellow
River Basin of China or the Indo-Gangetic plain -- and the reality of the
drought stricken farming areas of Australia and vast tracts of Africa, not
forgetting the storm challenged USA regions such as New Orleans or flood prone
Bangladesh.

Aurora Carlson is the founder of the Open One Center in Sweden, which is dedicated
to teaching holistic health and to raising the level of collective consciousness.
She has studied at Bucharest, Stockholm, Uppsala and Halmstad universities
and at the Nordic School of Public Health in Gothenburg. She has served as
an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) advisor in the mission
of rebuilding the Romanian Red Cross after the revolution and has worked for
over six years with the Swedish National Red Cross. For four years she has
been a teacher at the Ayurveda School in Markaryd and has later developed
a program for Ayurvedic counsellor certification. Her main interest is the
evolution of human consciousness. For the last six years, Aurora has lectured
extensively about spiritual ways to reach maximum individual and collective
potential. She is a mother of two and lives on the West coast of Sweden. As
an active member of the Alliance for the New Humanity founded by Dr Deepak
Chopra, a distinguished ATCA contributor, Oscar Arias and others, she is working
on bringing together those individuals who are consciously expressing higher
human values. She writes:

If we keep in mind with clarity the new understanding emerging today, that
our consciousness is connected to our environment, if we are ready to go deeper
than the level of our actions to the level of thought, feeling and intention,
we will observe an amazing correlation between the fluctuations of our individual
and collective consciousness and the weather. If we take this next step in
understanding, then we are suddenly much closer to a true solution. It then
becomes clear why quieting the mind and clearing away the clouds of fearful,
greedy, chaotic thinking is the way to reveal the natural harmony of human
consciousness, the peace, beauty and serenity inherent in us and -- through
the interrelatedness of all existence -- to see our physical environment calm
down and mirror that harmony back to us.

With love and best wishes

Aurora

[ENDS]

We look forward to your further thoughts, observations and views. Thank
you.

Best wishes

For and on behalf of DK Matai, Chairman, Asymmetric Threats Contingency
Alliance (ATCA)

ATCA: The Asymmetric Threats Contingency
Alliance is a philanthropic expert initiative founded in 2001
to resolve complex global challenges through collective Socratic
dialogue and joint executive action to build a wisdom based global
economy. Adhering to the doctrine of non-violence, ATCA addresses
asymmetric threats and social opportunities arising from climate
chaos and the environment; radical poverty and microfinance; geo-politics
and energy; organised crime & extremism; advanced technologies
-- bio, info, nano, robo & AI; demographic skews and resource
shortages; pandemics; financial systems and systemic risk; as
well as transhumanism and ethics. Present membership of ATCA is
by invitation only and has over 5,000 distinguished members from
over 120 countries: including 1,000 Parliamentarians; 1,500 Chairmen
and CEOs of corporations; 1,000 Heads of NGOs; 750 Directors at
Academic Centres of Excellence; 500 Inventors and Original thinkers;
as well as 250 Editors-in-Chief of major media.

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